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Figurescapes by Jim Schwall

Almost all of Jim’s photography of the last fifteen years or so combines figures and natural-area landscapes.  Although he has worked with just about every possible photographic genre, from archeological documentation to abstracts, these are the two genres Jim finds endlessly interesting, and especially fascinating in combination.

Jim has, from time to time, used various color printing techniques, but his preferred printing process uses a combination of Civil-War-era techniques collectively called non-silver printing, or more accurately, pre-silver printing.  All eventually fell into disuse with the advent of silver gelatin printing, now the standard black-and-white process.  All of the pre-silver processes are contact printed (negative-size equals print-size) using sunlight.  Each uses a different relatively-benign chemistry, cyanotype printing out blueprint blue, kallitype Van Dyke brown, and gum arabic taking its color from added pigments.  Gum arabic may (usually must) be printed over itself or one of the other processes. Please vist his galleries to view the collections. You may purchase them online.